Just outside Sturgis, S.D., a RCPE freight passes the Black Hills National Cemetery.

A RCPE freight passes the old depot in Sturgis, S.D.

Heading for Rapid City, a RCPE freight crosses a small creek just outside Belle Fourche, S.D.

RCPE 3426, 3422 and 3428 westbound at Iroquois, South Dakota.

RCPE SD40-2 3430 leads the MRCHU east of Blunt, SD on 5/25/2016.

With intense thunderstorms moving in from the southwest, the RCPE crew prepares to depart Pierre.

They may not have looked good, but those EMD 567's sure sounded good! DM&E 560 departs Wolsey, SD westbound with a typically long train. I was amazed to see that the semaphore is still there, at l... (more)

Today's westbound manifest from Tracy, Minnesota to Huron, South Dakota has just cleared the west siding switch at De Smet where it met its eastbound counterpart. Seven SD40s now work to get the t... (more)

Chasing the train from Rapid City to Sturgis is easy due to the line paralleling I-90 (which has a 75 MPH speed limit) while the train is limited to only 30. While today's train wasn't too long th... (more)

The Belle Fourche-Rapid City local heads along the I-90 corridor passing by a rest area near Tilford, SD. While today's train wasn't too long they did have three locomotives in the DME paint color... (more)

The Belle Fourche-Rapid City local heads along the I-90 corridor past the Black Hills National Cemetery. While today's train wasn't too long they did have three locomotives in the DME paint colors... (more)

Black Hills Central Railroad #63 was built in 1956 for Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. It's operating today since #110 is down for a boiler wash. The locomotive sits in the depot before heading to ... (more)

Black Hills Central Railroad #63 was built in 1956 for Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. It's operating today since #110 is down for maintenance. The 6% grade of tin mill hill is no trouble for the G... (more)

A trio of SD40-2's tug the Belle Turn into Sturgis.

Spring is barely in evidence on May 15, 1972 as Milwaukee Road GP9 211 accelerates across the James River bridge at Yankton, S.D., with an eastbound for Sioux City, Iowa. Dating from 1875, this li... (more)